Cleaning and polishing implement



May 6, 1930. H. HERTZBERG 1,757,366

CLEANING AND POLISHING IMPLEMENT Filed Feb. 27 1929 Patented May 6, 1930 UNITED STATES HARRY HERTZBERG, F BROOKLYN NEW YORK CLEANING AND POLISHING IMPLEMENT Application filed February 27, 1923. Serial No. 343,074.

This invention relates to cleaning implements of the brush or mop type and particularly to that class of such implements which are especially intended for use in the kitchen for cleaning and polishing knives, dishes, plates and other articles on which two parallel surfaces have to be cleaned and polished.

It is the object of this invention to provide an implement of this type which simultaneously performs two different operations on opposite sides of the same utensil.

It is another object of this invention to provide an implement of this type which is extremely simple in construction and operation and which may be sold for a very small price.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in a certain novel combination of elements and details of construction hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings which form a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my cleaning implement illustrating its use for cleaning and polishing a knife.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. The different positions of a knife while being cleaned and polished by my cleaning mop and brush are illustrated in this figure.

Fig. 3 shows the application of my cleaning mop and brush for cleaning and polishin a dish.

eferring to the drawings 10 and 11 are two rings, each consisting of a pair of Wire strands which hold cleaning material clamped between the turns of the twisted wires. The cleaning material clamped by the strands of each of the two rings is of a different type or kind. Ring 10 holds a stiff and hard material radiating therefrom as bristles, piassava fiber, steel or alloy wire.

In this manner an annular, ring shaped brush is formed which is capable of a light scraping action.

Ring 11 holds in like manner soft and absorbent material as cotton or wool threads or the like which form a soft pad-like mop when held by ring 11.

The ends of the twisted wires of each ring are again twisted about each other to form a stem of four strands at 1O and 11 and these two stems are further twisted into a single stem 12 of 8 strands which fastens the brush 20 and polishing mop 21 to each other so that the planes of the two rings are parallel to each other and that the adjacent faces of the brush and mop are pressed against each other by the resiliency of the upper stems 10 and 11: Stem 12 is held in an axial aperture of a mop handle 13.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the application ofthis utensil for cleaning and polishing a knife is illustrated. The knife 25 of Fig. 1 can be cleaned and polished on both sides Without reversing, in three strokes or positions by my cleaning utensil as shown in Fig. 2. In position 25 the right side of the knife is being cleaned by brush 20. In position 25" the left side of the knife is being cleaned by brush 20 and simultaneously the right side (formerly cleaned) is being polished.

In position 25 the left side of the knife (which was cleaned in position 25*) is being polished.

It will be seen that only three positions of the knife relative to the utensil are required to clean and polish both faces and that neither knife nor utensil have to be turned or reversed in any manner. In Fig. 3 the application of the same cleaning utensil for cleaning a dish is illustrated which shows that the rim of the dish may be similarly cleaned and polished as knife 25 by bringing the plate into the three positions 26, 26 and 26. Ordinarily four operations are necessary for the same work with different utensils and manual pressure has to be exerted against the surfaces which have to be cleaned.

The pressure required for cleaning is eliminated in my implement by the resiliency of the brush and mop stems.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the kind described a pair of frames arranged parallel to each other one of said frames supporting hard scrubbing material on opposite sides thereof and the other frame supporting soft textile material on opposite sides thereof,,resilient means on said frames pressing adjacent sides of said scrubbing material and said soft material against each other forming means for cleaning one side of a plate inserted between said frames and for simultaneously polishing the opposite side thereofin one operation. 7 *2. In a device of he kind described the combination with a handle, of two loops of twisted wire strands facing each other one of said loops having hard bristles or similar stiff scrubbing material held by the twists of said strands and the other loop having absorbent textile material held therein, a resilient stem on each loop, said resilient stems having end portions joined to each other within an aperture of said handle for pressing said bristles against said mop material forming means for jointly cleaning one side and polishing the opposite side of a plate inserted between saidvloops. I

3. In a device of the kind described the combination with a handle-engaging stem of -two loops of twistedwire strands arranged in parallel planes one of said loops having hard fibrous scrubbing material held by its twisted strands the otherloop having soft polishing material held by its strands, each of said loops having a resilient portion con- 30 necting it to a twisted common stem forming means for pressing said bristles towards said mop material to exert pressure against opposite faces of a plate inserted between said loops and for performing a different cleaning 35 operation on either side thereof.

' Signed at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York this 23d of February,

- HARRY HERTZBERG. 

